4 Deceased BMC Workers Received Their Salary After Their Death

Afternoon Voice

AV has come across a big fraud done in the name of Dattak Basti Yojana an initiation taken by MCGM to keep slum areas clean. A shocking scam which took place from last 9 years since 2001 when Dattak Basti Yojana started was that MCGM was paying for last 9 years to those who died even before these plans were implemented. Prakash Ghag and Shridhar Chavan were dead before this scheme started also Mahesh More and Milind Tambe died in the year 2006 but their every month wages and their present is been always marked in the roster. The main question arises that who is responsible to take the salary of deceased peoples. Neither their family got any of these amounts nor do they no they were been enrolled for such works of cleaning the area. Also in which Ganesh Chawan and Babu Chondekar were not aware that they are been enrolled for such work neither do they receive Rs4070 per month as per the norms of MCGM. These money is been collected by Private Organisation who is responsible to take care of the wages. And one such organization Subangi Mahila Audogik Sanstha which is been taken care by the family of Subangi Shirke of ward no 122 are behind these frauds says Vilas R Chavan an RTI activist.

Also BMC has adopted 11 public toilets in ward no-122 which will charge Rs10 per family but this organization of Subangi Shirke use to take Rs50 per family. Hence the amount of scam with this format becomes 60 Lakhs in 24 months, with respect to the calculation of 6248 families using these toilets.

Other than this number of documents and RTI given to AV by Akhtar Shaikh an MNS leader of Govandi which showed a mojor difference in the number of labours allotted by the MCGM and M-East Ward. In a given RTI of M-east ward the sum of labours appointed for ward no 129,130,131,132,133 are 273 whereas the data of BMC states that the number of labors allotted by the BMC is 198 in numbers. In which there are 75 labours are missing and no record have been found in BMC office. Though the salary of these 75 labours who are not on the list of BMC are been taken every months in cash which is upto 36 lakhs a year in these 6 words only. “Out of these 198 labours not even half are seen working on the street” Akhtar Shaikh also he added that “If we calculate the fraud in whole 220 wards where these yojanas are active it will be a biggest BMC scam in last 20 years”. MCGM allots Private NGO’s who are into social activities for atleast 2 years and can hire labours by providing their details. “Though this type of fraud is possible because the wages are been paid in cash to these labours and hence it is easier for these organizations to continue getting a monthly handsome amount even after their death or their absence” says a retired BMC Engineer.

When AV contacted Mangesh Sangle MLA of MNS said that “We find it difficult too as these workers of Dattak Basti Yojana are not doing their work and amounts in Crore’s are been paid to them” also he added that “these types of plans are been made to fulfill the corrupt need of corporators of Mumbai”. Asma Shaikh Corporator of Ward No-132 was unavailable to give her comment. 

When AV asked Vilas R Chavan about why this fraud is been nourishing since last 9 years he replied that “These organizations are runned by Corporators and Ex-Corporators of their respective ward and are been paid blindly by the BMC without any vigilance or audit set on these organizations” further he stated that “I request for a CBI inquiry held on every ward where we can find how much fraud is going on in each ward in the name of this yojana”